In response to Ali-Marie Ingram:
Stuff going on in the Gaza Strip…
Ali-Marie Ingram | 15 March 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6iWEO5RHLI
33 AD to c. 325 AD. Christians in the Holy Land are mainly Hebrews. I know that because of Stephan Borgehammar's How the Holy Cross was Found, among other things, the Church of Jerusalem got to Pella (al Fahl, Jordan) in AD 70 and then went back (some of them, some remaining in Pella), so, there is a continuity of population in the Holy Land from Acts two and eight to Constantine and his mother. The book is mainly about how this influences her chances of finding the cross and then different accounts of what happened and how these seem to indicate the accounts go back to the actual event. The info about Christians in the Holy Land is however part of a chapter I or chapter Intro or sth.
325 AD to 637 (or so) AD. Christians in the Holy Land are mainly Hebrews, and lots more of the Hebrews are Christians after Constantine. EXCEPT, during the invasion of Chosroës II, they often apostasise and start persecuting Christians, and when Heraclius returns (connected to Elevation of the Holy Cross), they either remain Jewish and go to Persia, or they remain in the Holy Land and change religion once again and become Christians again. I know they are ethnically Hebrews, because Derwas Chitty's The Desert a City says that "they returned to the Judaism of their ancestors" rather than call it "apostasy" ... so, the Christians in the Holy Land as to ancestry were apparently something like Halakhic Jews, they could be accepted as Jews if they changed religion. The book by Derwas Chitty is mainly concerned with Egyptians founding monasticism. However when monks get to the Holy Land, they find monks already exist there, and the final chapter tells their story.
C. 637 AD. Christians in the Holy Land are under pressure to become Muslims and some actually do that. The final chapter of Derwas Chitty speaks of a Nomad tribe who used to be the "flock" of one monastery, and they get to the monastery and tell the monks "we are now Muslims, we are still your friends" ...
After c. 637 AD, the Christian population decreases and the Muslim increases, not mainly by immigration of those Soldiers, the ones who came with Omar, but by Christians apostatising to Islam. Same Christians as previously, so, mostly Hebrew.
And I have found no moment in history where this has ceased to be the case. Christian Hebrews and presumably (though this was not told by Derwas Chitty) Jewish Hebrews are the main origin of Muslims in the Holy Land (Beduins in Negev axcepted, arguably). This means, Palestinians today are Christian or Muslim Hebrews. THIS is more important than things that have happened lately, and obviously informs my stance on what has happened lately as well.
Yesterday I read in Le Monde Diplomatique (which is right now missing from the bags I took to the cyber, we'll see if I find it again when returning to my luggage) that in international law, one is supposed to determine in advance how many civilian casualties are acceptable for a given military target. US dismantling some Daesh stronghold was setting them at zero civilians for a common soldier, and five or ten or fifteen for a commander ("cadre"). Israel is in that article said to set the limits like ten civilians for a common soldier and one hundred for a commander. That would in any warfare be genocidal, but is especially distasteful when that war is in this case fratricidal.
How the Holy Cross Was Found: From Event to Mediaeval Legend
Relié – 1 mai 1991
Édition en Latin de Stephan Borgehammar (Auteur)
https://www.amazon.fr/How-Holy-Cross-Was-Found/dp/9122014322
[It's called Latin edition because a chunk features source texts in Latin]
Desert a City
Hardcover – Import, October 1, 1966
by Derwas J. Chitty (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Desert-City-D-J-Chitty/dp/0631100202/
Le Monde diplomatique: Vider Gaza, ce vieux rêve israélien
par Alain Gresh | Mars 2025, en kiosques
https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2025/03/GRESH/68098
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